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Mr, Geoffrey G. Senn, delegate, and Mr. Laurent Marti, assistant-delegate, are at present in the Congo where the International Committee is faced with urgent problems such as the hardships inflicted on the population as well as on fugitives and refugees from the regions where fighting is going on. The wounded and the sick, the shortage of medical supplies, conditions of detention in various places, all have given rise to innumerable negotiations by the two delegates. In the course of his discussions both with the leaders of the anti-government factions and with the authorities, Mr. Senn insisted that the essential humanitarian principles of the Geneva Conventions should be observed.